By Courtney Kueppers. Having an instructor to look up to can be vital to a student. Mentors can help students stay in college, provide them with research opportunities, and serve as lifelong role models. But what happens when students take reverence for teachers too far. More...
By Rio Fernandes. Texas A&M University at College Station is examining allegations that several students yelled racial slurs at a group of touring high-school students this week, reports The Dallas Morning News. More...
By Courtney Kueppers. How does a flagship university become the subject of a famous rapper’s Twitter rant? Book him for a speaking engagement, withhold $2,500 from his fee for not fulfilling his end of the deal … then wait. More...
By Prof. Hacker. One of the final assignments in a business writing course I teach involves having students write an action plan based on an assessment of their writing over the course of the semester. They create portfolios with the items they’ve written, reflect on the progress they’ve made and identify areas for growth. Read more...
By Prof. Hacker. Kyna Leski insists that with The Storm of Creativity (MIT Press) she is not writing a self-help book. Read more...
By Amy Cavender. It’s been an interesting few months in academia, and not in a good way. Two institutions of higher education — Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois and Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland — have found themselves in turmoil. Read more...By Anastasia Salter. I love teaching with visualized data: something as simple as running a text through Wordle (a word cloud tool) can reveal all sorts of fun things about what’s going on in a text through making patterns more visible. However, a lot of the tools for next-level data analysis aren’t particularly easy to use and can be overkill for simple lessons. Read more...By Amy Cavender. This week, I’d like to make a brief note about another helpful WordPress plugin. Sometimes, particularly if you’re running a WordPress network, you might need to access data about your users (e.g. email address, username, registration date, etc.) That information resides in the wp_users table of your installation’s MySQL database, and it’s a relatively simple matter to export the data from that table to a CSV file that can be imported into your favorite spreadsheet application. Read more...By Maha Bali. Last week, Prof Hacker Lee Skallerup Bessette drove to Virginia Commonwealth University to livetweet the thesis defense of Laura Gogia (in some circles better known by her Twitter handle @GoogleGuacamole). The hashtag used was #GoGoDoc. Read more...By Maha Bali. While curating the keyword Networks (with Mia Zamora) for the MLA collection entitled Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models and Experiments, we were reminded not to focus solely on digital networks to the exclusion of physical/analog ones. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
